Kenneth Hirth is professor of anthropology at Penn State University, associate faculty in anthropology at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras, and director of the El Cajón Project. He has authored, edited, or coedited twenty-six books on different aspects of Mesoamerican archaeology and economy, including The Organization of Ancient Economies, The Aztec Economic World, Olmec Lithic Economy at San Lorenzo, and Merchants, Markets and Exchange in the Pre-Columbian World. He is a recipient of the National Geographic Society's Chairman's Career Achievement Award in Archaeology and the Society of American Archaeology's Excellence in Lithic Studies Award.
Susan Hirth is an independent scholar and researcher and has conducted archaeological field research and laboratory analysis in the United States, Mexico, Honduras, and Peru. She was a field archaeologist and laboratory analyst of jade and ceramic materials from the El Cajón Project.
George Hasemann was a senior researcher and field archaeologist at the Honduran Institute of Anthropology and History for the last twenty-three years of his life. He is the author of Investigaciones Arqueológicas en la Fortaleza de San Fernando y el Asentamiento Colonial de Omoa and Etnología y Lingüística en Honduras: Una Mirada Retrospectiva and coauthor of the six-volume series Historia General de Centroamérica, Los Indios de Centroamérica, and three other books. The Eco-Archaeological Park of Los Naranjos at the Yojoa Lake was dedicated to him in honor of his contributions to the protection of the cultural heritage of Honduras.
Gloria Lara-Pinto is professor of anthropology in the Department of Social Sciences at the National Pedagogical University Francisco Morazán in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. She is the author of Educación de Adultos en Contextos Indígenas: Hacia una Educación Culturalmente Diferenciada en Honduras, and coauthor of the six-volume series Historia General de Centroamérica, Los Indios de Centroamérica, and eight other books. She is the first recipient of the Award for the Social Sciences granted by the National Autonomous University of Honduras and received the Teaching and Research Excellency Award from the National Pedagogical University.
